Florence
Nightingale
Foundation
Shine a light
Florence
The Florence Nightingale Foundation along with NHS England (South East) are pleased to offer a leadership programme to midwives from ethnic minority backgrounds who have experienced barriers to career progression or who have an ambition to progress and are looking to develop their leadership presence and impact.
This exciting opportunity (6 days, undertaken over 6 months) will enable you to explore and enhance your sphere of influence with authority for the benefit of your service and workforce.
The programme offers a supportive learning space to develop leadership identity, capacity, and capability to influence organisational and patient outcomes.
This programme will pay explicit attention to the institutional barriers to career progression for midwives from global majority backgrounds. Learning will be tailored to tackling cultural differences in communication style and presentation of self which have resulted in misunderstanding or disregarding of experience/ expertise.
To participate in the programme you must:
be a registered midwife with the NMC (any Band)
come from a Global Majority background
be practising in South East England
Closing date for applications
Welcome Day (Personality Preferences and Performance in Teams)
AND
Quality Improvement session
Virtual
All day (exact times tbc)
RADA
Face to Face
9am – 5pm GMT
Stepping into your authority
Virtual
Quality Improvement Submission
Deadline 12noon
Celebration Event
Face to face
Personality Preferences and Performance in Teams (Virtual)
Utilising Myer Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) we will explore how personality preference influence personal leadership styles and how awareness can enable the promotion of high performing teams.
Principles and Practice of Quality Improvement (Virtual)
An introduction to QI including approaches to leading change management and measuring impact. Each participant will complete a project linked to the NHS International Recruitment agenda to support sustainability of the INMA work.
Presentation of Self: Presence & Impact (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts RADA – Face to Face)
Practical approaches to developing confidence and clarity in the delivery of key messages for a range of audiences including the media and senior stakeholders.
** Travel and accommodation are not funded.
Stepping into your Authority (Virtual)
Development of leadership attributes which enable influence from ward to board. Specific consideration will be given to exploring the INA leader’s sphere of authority in relation to systems leadership and leading upwards.
Celebration Event (Face to face)
An opportunity to network showcase and celebrate the impact of INMA leaders to raise the profile of this significant career pathway.
** Travel and accommodation are not funded.
Each participant on the programme will be expected to undertake an improvement project which will enable them to apply their learning to practice.
The top elevator pitches will be selected to present at the Celebration Event.
All participants will join the FNF alumni community and receive on going networking and leadership development opportunities through events, webinars, media engagement and policy thought leadership.
Participants report the ‘life changing’ leadership experience and its professional and personal impact. Participants report feeling more confident to speak out and influence improvements in patient care and health outcomes.
To participate in the programme you must:
be a registered midwife with the NMC (any Band)
come from a Global Majority background
be practising in South East England
The application, shortlisting and selection processes will be administered nationally by the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
What you will need to demonstrate in your application form:
Upon application, you are required to upload the following information:
Please note before application:
If you have any questions about applying for this programme, please email [email protected]